On Quora, in answer to: "Is the story of God creating Eve for Adam in the Bible true?"

It is true - in Scripture, like in most books, what is non-history is marked as such in various ways, but the account of Adam and Eve is treated as history (and, for example, it is treated as history by Christ).

Another thing someone pointed out is that if Adam and Eve were fictional, since it gives a genealogy from Adam to Jesus, either Jesus is also fictional, or someone in that genealogy is half fictional and half non-fictional. 😆

As to whether God created at all, this has more to go into elsewhere, but, in a nutshell: because of the law of cause and effect, if anything exists, then something must exist that is eternal, from which everything came - and because a greater thing cannot come from a lesser thing, what is eternal must be the greatest thing that can exist. It must be an eternally present, eternally living, eternally reasoning being.

As to why God made Eve from part of Adam, it is reasonable to think that he did so specifically in order to establish the nature and design of marriage, as it says that because she is made from a part of man, this is why a man and woman become one flesh in sex, and why they must be married (covenanted to not forsake their own flesh).

So not only is it true, it is foundational to one of the most foundational and deeply beautiful parts of being human, being God’s image.

#sabbathposts 2024/08/03